Tony Stewart Racing Knoxville preview

ROAD TO KNOXVILLE
Tony Stewart Racing, McMahan Look Forward
to First 2007 Event at Legendary Track
INDIANAPOLIS (April 24, 2007) -- For Paul McMahan and the rest of the
World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Series competitors, this Saturday's event
at...

INDIANAPOLIS (April 24, 2007) -- For Paul McMahan and the rest of the
World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Series competitors, this Saturday's event
at Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway will kick off the annual pilgrimage to the
crown jewel of winged sprint car racing, the Knoxville Nationals.

The No. 20 Tony Stewart Racing/Bass Pro Shops/Eagle team has a
long-standing reputation of success at Knoxville including back-to-back
Knoxville Nationals victories in 2003 and 2004.

TSR driver McMahan hopes to continue the success of the No. 20 team at
Knoxville by earning not only his first victory of the 2007 season, but
his first win at the legendary 1/2-mile raceway. In last year's 46th
annual Knoxville Nationals, McMahan crossed the finish line in 11th.

McMahan and the No. 20 TSR/Bass Pro Shops/Eagle team enter this
weekend's racing action ranked 10th in the WoO Sprint Series
Championship standings. The team has earned one top-five finish and five
top-10 finishes thus far in 2007, putting McMahan only 296 points behind
series leader Donny Schatz. The team has also won one B-main and one
dash event in 15 races.

Describe your first look at Knoxville Raceway from inside the cockpit.

"My first event at Knoxville was the Knoxville Nationals, the biggest
event of them all. I remember sitting in my car, strapped in, waiting
to be pushed off. You really absorb everything in your first event at
a track like Knoxville. There weren't any suites at that point, or any
grandstands on the backstretch. I remember being in awe of the number
of cars that were in the pits and the number of people that were in the
stands. It was surreal. To be sitting in a racecar about to compete at a
place like that is something you don't forget. The event itself is huge
and it just continues to grow. It's an amazing facility."

How do you expect the Chevrolet engine to perform on the big, sweeping
turns at Knoxville?

"Knoxville and Eldora are tracks that really give you a good opportunity
to find out where your engine program is. Tracks of that size and tracks
that require a lot of horsepower are great tests. I think we're going
to be fine. We just got a new Chevrolet engine from Kistler Engines a
couple of weeks ago. It was the one we ran at Eldora earlier this month.
We qualified really well with it and if the track is good and we get a
decent number in the qualifying draw, we'll be in good shape to possibly
get our first win of the year for Bass Pro Shops."

It seems as if Knoxville Raceway offers great racing action for
competitors and fans alike. Would you agree?

"Things can change at Knoxville in the blink of an eye. You're always
looking ahead for anything that could happen but you really have to be
on your toes. It also depends on who is in front of you when you're
racing. It can get pretty wild if you get into a group of lapped traffic
that's trying to sort itself out. The great thing about Knoxville is
that it's big and wide which gives us an opportunity to race four-wide.
You never know what you're going to get with a race at Knoxville, but
it's a sure bet that it will be entertaining."